Nonfiction - Black Reads

Winner of the 2023 Award for Excellence for Best Historical Research in Recorded Jazz from the Association for Recorded Sound Collections During ...

"Hold tight. The way to go mad without losing your mind is sometimes unruly." So begins La Marr Jurelle Bruce's urgent provocation and poignant med...

An illuminating selection of writings on a wide variety of topics—everything from technique, music theory, and daily routine to spirituality and ...

The brand of jazz that developed in the Kansas City area in the period from the late 1920s to the late 1930s is recognised as both a distinct styli...

"Daniel Bedrosian has done a wonderful job of a seemingly impossible task of reconstructing this history--finding everybody who's been a part of, i...

Where exactly does the South begin and end? Current maps are too rigid to account for the ways Black people have built the South while being simult...

Where exactly does the South begin and end? Current maps are too rigid to account for the ways Black people have built the South while being simult...

Raised in the ghetto, abandoned as a child, addicted to drugs and women all his life but still able to produce four consecutive #1 hip-hop albums...

Re-release of the first book ever published in America about the legendary Motown Record Company, with a new foreword by legendary music journali...

Yes, it's true Over The Edge and Murder Dog have joined forces and we are re-purposing and releasing some of their amazing premium content. Murder...

"Rhythms of Resistance: A Journey through 90s Hip-Hop"*** Author of "Rapper's Delight" essay currently archived at the Library of Congress ****** G...

"Boombox Echoes: The Definitive Hip-Hop Journey of the 80s"*** Author of "Rapper's Delight" essay currently archived at the Library of Congress ***...

"From Streets to Stardom: A Rapid-Fire Tour of Hip-Hop Evolution"Hip Hop's evolution offers a vivid voice and pictorial history of life on the stre...

Written by a close friend using recorded interviews with Minner, the assistance of Selby Minner, bandmate and wife, with family, band, and festival...

Miles Davis is one of the most revered artists of the last 100 years, regardless of the art form. Credited with ushering in a new age of jazz more ...

Despite the fact that most of jazz's major innovators and performers have been African American, the overwhelming majority of jazz journalists, cri...